Brit Gets Tattoo, Sis Watches

151. I'm so sick of the Britney Bashing...I'm not a fan of hers, however lets face it. ANYTHING she does is going to make news...How many of us have gone out drinking...she's what? 24? ooohh she has 2 kids..guess her life is supposed to be over? Get Real!!! I know plenty of divorced women with kids who party, get tattoos, go out etc. Where are her kids? probably like most moms with kids who go out to stores etc. either with the grandparents or a sitter. Oh...and her hair looks dirty...mmmm let's check out how many styles these days look that way. ...oh..her bra strap is showing oh no!!!! quick..call the cops...again..I can walk the local mall..hell..even the Mall of America and see half the young women showing bra straps...tattoos...and ratty hair....half of them with kids!!!! Give me a Break! and for this she ''deserves her kids taken away? " From all reports..she is a terrific mom. Being a mom does NOT mean being with them 24/7..it means being well rounded and having your own life too...Kids are PART of ones life..not all of it. I know..i'm a mom...and no..i'm NOT YOUNG....i'm 47, divorced, mother of 2 grandmother of 2. I made the mistake of doing nothing but working and taking care of my kids. NO life...didnt' go out...didn't have a social life at all. My daughter...now 24, married and with 2 kids...tells me she's sorry i missed out on sooo much. Britney's kids are young...once they are in Bed for the night....get a responsilbe caretaker and go out...she's free and over 21. She's got the money and the opportunity. NO ONE has EVER said her children are being neglected or abused...so people should just back off..I"m sure everyone's life out there is sooo perfect right?

Posted at 4:09PM on Dec 24th 2006 by mze

152. Wow, everyone seems so judgmental about her. I agree with Tammy on here. I'm NOT a fan of Britney, or her music, but I don't think she's this disaster everyone else thinks she is, besides none of us really KNOW her, it's just what we see from the media, and surely we know by now how the media can make stuff up for a "good story".. And what's so evil about a tattoo?

Posted at 4:20PM on Dec 24th 2006 by Sharon

153. # 151 yoy are a very angry lady, are you not, maybe you should go out once now... your not too old for fun, are you?

Posted at 4:24PM on Dec 24th 2006 by Tommy Knocker

154. She is probably going to the the kind of mother her's was. Her mother is the one, when discussing Brittany's breast implants and sexy clothing at age 18 said "if you've got it flaunt it". Her parents have ridden on her career since it started, her mother is trashy and encourages her girls to dress trashy. They don't seem to be able to tell trashy from sexy and the mother doesn't seem to know at what ages that's appropriate and at what ages it's not. You can't buy class no matter how much money you have.

Posted at 4:40PM on Dec 24th 2006 by Minette

155. Have compassion for Britney???? ROFLMAO..... she chose every single one of her disasters.... I sure wish they'd take those kids away from her AND Fed-Ex .... what a pathetic excuse for a mom she is....

Posted at 5:00PM on Dec 24th 2006 by Gina

156. I believe Britney's actions are within the norm....She has good times and down times...I'm really busy with my own activities to say much more....I wish Britney good health and long life...Everything that I have seen is acceptable ...She has good abilities and financal freedom....Britney is a good mom....As anyone can see she loves her children ....she has two....and they look health and loved...Britney you are doing a good job....

Posted at 6:37PM on Dec 24th 2006 by Kim

157. she's still a very young kid so in all likelihood she'll get it all turned around but with two little ones( her children, pay attention !) she's got a long way to go. As long as she can still turn a few million bucks with her music(defining it as music is ah stretch)and flashin it she can at least fake it but if she does something that really makes you kids so pissed at her that ya won't buy her music and go to er shows all bets are off

Posted at 4:48PM on Dec 24th 2006 by wink

158. I think Britany should re-release her song: Whoops I Did It Again: every three months to explain her behavior.

Posted at 4:54PM on Dec 24th 2006 by Austin

159. She should have just gotten her tattoo removed:

go here: www.tat2begone.com for information about

removing your tattoo.

Posted at 9:40PM on Dec 25th 2006 by bek

160. I say w/e she wants to do, she can do. But she'll pay the price later in life.

Posted at 5:07PM on Dec 24th 2006 by James

161. Leave her alone. I bet you all know at least one person that has a tattoo, but because it's Britney she's suddenly a tramp for doing it. You guys are disgusting. Let her live her life and back off.

Posted at 8:38PM on Dec 24th 2006 by Courtney

162. Disgusting. I am no longer a fan of Britney, she has turned herself into nothing but white trash! She is a disgrace to the business she's in. And as for people worrying about Paris ruining Britney's rep? I'm pretty sure it's the other way around! At least Paris doesn't LOOK like a slob. Britney; get some help.

Posted at 5:31PM on Dec 24th 2006 by Kristy

163. Runaway Success of 'High School Musical,' 'Dreamgirls' Spurs Renewed Interest Among Competitors in $170 Billion Teen Entertainment Market

2006-12-25 23:52:46 - "In Your Dreams," a quirky ballot-box-stuffing high-school Dreamgirls-style musical, sees surging interest in stage and screen production in wake of genre's explosive cable network debut.

New York, NY (PRINSIDE) December 25, 2006 -- The runaway success of Disney Channel's "High School Musical," the sound track of which has hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard pop-music charts twice this year on its way to going triple platinum, has renewed interest in the "Dreamgirls"-style teen musical genre -- and among the musical productions benefiting is "In Your Dreams," a musical written and produced by Miramax-linked screenwriter Zeke Farrow and scored by Lucian Piane.

http://inyourdreamsthemusical.com/

'When the $4 million budget ‘High School Musical' debuted on the Disney Channel on Jan. 20 of this year, it drew nearly eight million viewers, making it the top-rated basic-cable TV show that week," says Farrow, who also co-wrote the award-winning indie feature "Slo-Mo." 'My phone was ringing off the hook and my e-mail box was flooded with queries -- is yours next?" says Farrow. 'I'm hopeful that it is -- especially as 'High School Musical' is now a $300 million worldwide franchise."

"Everyone told me I was crazy for writing a high school musical," Farrow admits. "But it turns out my timing was perfect. And who doesn't like to tell their agent, ‘I told you so!'"

Like "High School Musical," which was seen by 32 million viewers ages six to 14 in its first 10 American cable screenings, Farrow and Piane's "Dreamgirl"-style "In Your Dreams" is a large scale, splashy, teen musical -- with a dash of political satire. It centers around Helen, a 17-year-old girl who appears in three different incarnations, Black, Pink, and Blue.

The musical opens with the bizarre introduction of Black Helen, a girl tortured by fellow students Melanie and Jordanna and secretly in love with Jared. We quickly learn that Black Helen is but a dream and as she fades and Pink Helen wakes up, we realize that Pink Helen's life is a perfect, bubble gum musical. She is popular, she's dating Jared, she has high hopes for a perfect day. And today is the day to beat all days. It is prom, and Helen is a front runner to win prom queen'until she learns that the "Popular Girls Caucus" has turned against her -- and is even stuffing the ballot box to engineer her defeat!

"There's a little bit of political satire in the musical, to keep the older audience intrigued," admits Farrow.

According to many, the themes and music of "In Your Dreams" compare favorably those of "Fame," "Dreamgirls," "Hairspray," and even "Welcome Back, Kotter" -- but may cleave most closely to the smash Disney hit "High School Musical," which, since premiering on the Disney Channel in the U.S. earlier this year, has become nothing short of a phenomenon, setting records around the world.

"Not since ‘Fame' or ‘Grease,' 'Dreamgirls' or ‘Hairspray' has a musical had such impact," says Farrow. "Like my own musical, ‘High School Musical' is rollicking and squeaky-clean, geared for a young and lucrative audience." "'Hairspray" will be released as an Adam Shankman-directed film in the summer of 2007, Farrow notes.

Worldwide, Disney's cable-only "High School Musical" has now been seen by over 40 million people, and it has earned a Guinness World Record for the most successful songs from a song track -- despite being produced on a $4 million production budget. With its popular songs and frenzied toe-tapping, "High School Musical" has become the most popular Disney Channel movie ever, says Farrow. "And we anticipate the same bright future for our own teen musical, 'In Your Dreams.'"

Directed by the man behind "Dirty Dancing," "High School Musical" took America by storm, landing six Emmy nominations, and is anticipated to do the same in the U.K. Says Farrow: 'It kept singer James Blunt off the top of the U.S. album charts, outsold ‘Saturday Night Fever,' and has become the biggest selling television soundtrack since the '80s hit ‘Miami Vice.'"

What is helping to fuel the "In Your Dreams" express is the fact that "In Your Dreams'" 13 songs have already been professionally recorded on a CD with performances by a number of top Broadway singers, including Drama Desk-nominated Leslie Kritzer, "Legally Blond's" Laura Bell Bundy, "Les Miserable's" Jodie Langel, "Little Shop of Horror's" Kerry Butler, "Thoroughly Modern Millie's" Gavin Creel, "Hairspray's" Jackie Hoffman, 'The Full Monty's" Sloan Just, and Anika Larsen, Danny Rocket and Anthony Rapp from 'Rent." The CD includes songs such as "Better than Dreams," "When You're the Queen," "Put the I in Team," and "I Was Born to Reign."

"What the success of the $4 million budget 'High School Musical' has demonstrated once and for all is the fact that there is a place for wholesomeness in the teen entertainment industry," says Farrow. Farrow points to recent comments by Naomi Wolf, whose feminist work, ‘The Beauty Myth,' launched her to fame, made in a recent essay for the New York Times to the effect that today's entertainment for teens 'packages corruption with a cute overlay."

Says Farrow: "As Wolf wrote: ‘The problem is a value system in which meanness rules, parents check out, conformity is everything and stressed-out adult values are presumed to be meaningful to teenagers.' But as the success of Gary Marsh and Disney's "High School Musical'' demonstrates, there is definitely a huge audience -- let's call it 'Flyoverland,' a land between New York and Los Angeles -- that is searching for meaningful entertainment with a positive as opposed to a slutty message."

And that's not a small market by any means, says Farrow. Between 1990 and 2000, the number of youths between ages 12 and 19 climbed to 32.4 million in the United States, an increase of 4.5 million, according to a survey by Media Mark Research last year using U.S. Census data. The 12-19 year old market currently spends $170 billion a year on entertainment products, including movies. 'There's obviously room for a wide range of value systems to succeed in this $170 billion marketplace.-

See also: JoJo, Dualstar, Emma Roberts, Diana Ross, Anne Sweeney ABC

Posted at 5:28PM on Dec 24th 2006 by Zondra

164. Nothing more trashy than a lady with a visible tattoo on her body. Especially on her arm or even worse on her neck. Talk about trailer park trash!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 8:10AM on Dec 26th 2006 by D

165. One day her kids will be all grown up and they'll get a good look at what a piece of trailer trash their mother really is. And they'll probably be terribly, terribly embarrassed. So way to go, super mom. Keep up the good work. We're all right there behind you. And by "all of us", of course I mean "none of us."

P.S. I hear that if you have THREE kids, they let you sit in the VIP room at Spago. So you might want to consider that, when the question of "whether to dump out another little status symbol" eventually comes up. Remember that three kids gets you in the newspapers more.

Posted at 5:37PM on Dec 24th 2006 by Mario